PGA DFS Core Plays - DraftKings & FanDuel: World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba
Top-ranked DFS player, Notorious, breaks down his favorite PGA DFS plays at various salary ranges for the coming week’s golf tournament. Who should you be building around? Find out below.
World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba
While we didn’t have the strongest field last week in Bermuda, I was certainly tuned into the final round. We hit Seamus Power at +2500 and also hit the Power top five and the Ben Griffin top 10 bets. It’s always easier to get more excited about the next event after a good week and we actually have a quality field on tap for the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba. This event used to have one of the shortest names on the PGA Tour (OHL Classic), but it has the longest name by a mile now. We have plenty of course history to work with, which should help narrow down our player pool for the week.
El Camaleon Golf Course is a Par 71 that measures 7,034 yards and is located in the beautiful Playa Del Carmen. The course is only a hop, skip, and a jump away from Cancun, so golfers will have to resist the temptation to enjoy the nightlife. The course is still extremely short by PGA Tour standards, but it is significantly longer than the one we saw last week in Bermuda. Five of the par fours measure over 450 yards and two of the par fives measure over 550 yards. We typically see the par threes play as some of the tougher holes each week, but that won’t be the case here. These are by far the easiest par threes on the PGA Tour.
Given the fact that we don’t have ShotLink data to work with from past renewals (no ShotTracker again this week), I went back and looked at how the top 10 finishers over the last five years fared in the statistics we do have available from the event. These are averages of the golfers that made the cut and played all four rounds.
- Driving distance: 31.8
- Driving accuracy: 25.2
- Greens in Regulation: 22.0
- Putts per GIR: 18.2
- Birdie average: 9.6
Much like last week, distance off the tee is not required to contend at this course. I mean, Brendon Todd and Matt Kuchar have won here in the last five years. Accuracy is much preferred over distance, although we shouldn’t place a big focus on off the tee metrics this week. The greens here are large and easy to hit on average. Additionally, the scrambling success rate here is well above the tour average. For me, this signals the lack of importance of around the green. This certainly aligns with the winner here the last two years. Viktor Hovland is one of the worst in the world around the green, yet he’s won this even in back-to-back years.
This week is all about iron play and putting. Hitting greens is important, but they are large enough that golfers will need to hit the right portions in order to give themselves birdie looks. And that’s extremely important, as the last five winners here have finished at -23, -20, -20, -22, and -19. This is routinely one of the 10 easiest courses on tour and there’s nothing in the forecast to suggest that will change this time around. It’s early in the week, but we could get some rain on Wednesday and Thursday. As of now, there aren’t expecting to be over 15 MPH gusts all tournament.
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Tournament Info
Field Size:
- 132 golfers
Cut Rule:
- Top 65 and ties
Weather Forecasts
Key Statistics
- Strokes Gained Approach
- Strokes Gained Putting
- Birdie or Better %
- Total Driving